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In Flanders, the 80% of the total housing stock consists of one-family houses, of which 42% is a detached house (SVR, 2010). Characterized by low density, absence of services, car dependency, and by an ageing population, the typical Flemish residential subdivision is facing major challenges: ecological, economic and social. The research starts from the hypothesis that durable transformations in residential subdivisions require processes of ...

The Research Council of Hasselt University approved the stay of dr. Livin Henry Mosha (School of Architecture Construction Economics and Management, Ardhi University, Tanzania). During this stay, dr. Livin Henry Mosha will perform research in cooperation with your research group ARCK.

The adaptive reuse of heritage – altering existing buildings for new or continuous use – is an important conservational, architectural, and urban strategy today. It is a complex task which, besides practical and technical aspects, includes a process of re-evaluation in which a new balance must be found between different sorts of values, moving from historical and conservational values towards architectural, societal, and economical values. As ...

The project introduces children, teenagers and adults to the architecture and structure of the city they live, study and work in through a mutimedial, creative and interactive exhibition. But what makes the city, and the buildings it is composed of, so smart and unique?To discover this, we need to deconstruct the city. Every city consists of various building blocks and levels, ranging from neighbourhoods, buildings, public spaces and ...

This research project aims at building a community-based global digital network of building data, based on international standards and state of the art technologies (semantic data modelling, web technologies, data mining), and a local IT-platform that manages and allows to consume this information in support of key use cases in the built environment: code compliance checking and subset selection (queries).

This project studies how architectural exhibitions in U+2018FlandersU+2019 between 1983 and 2010 have served as medium for a public architectural cultural debate, and how they have contributed to the development of an architectural policy. Through a database of architectural exhibitions and through annotated digital reconstructions of exhibition installations of eight cases, digital humanities methods are developed for exhibition historical ...

In recent year, due to Vietnam's urbanization and industrialization processes, traditional craft villages in periurban areas face a loss of cultural identity. Traditional craftsmanship as living heritage includes traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants. Unesco emphasized that living heritage is an important factor in maintaining cultural diversity in the face of growing globalization. ...

Architectural historians and theorists commonly assume that defining architecture inevitably implies the concept of space. However, their view on how the concept of space developed in the twentieth century suffers from myopia. Most attention has been drawn to the modernist celebration of space as the essence of architecture, which reached its culmination in the 1940s. Postmodern contributions, surfacing in the 1970s, rejected this essentialist ...

Current Flemish policies regarding care for older people stress the need for care at home, in order to postpone as long as possible moving towards retiring homes. These policies however risk to produce counter-effects with respect to other policy domains such as spatial planning. Advocates of spatial sustainability stress the need for spatial efficiency, requiring the densification of centers, where infrastructure and amenities can be ...